Open Access Journals

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This is a section within the larger Bibliography of open access.

General Works

Bell, Julie. "Internet Publishing Attracting Academics." The Boston Globe, 16 August 2004. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/08/16/internet_publishing_attracting_academics/

Bjork, Bo-Christopher, and Ziga Turk. "Case studies in open access publishing. Number one. The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon): An Open Access Journal Using an Un-Paid, Volunteer-Based Organization." Information Research, 03 March 2006, http://informationr.net/ir/11-3/paper255.html

Burdman, Pamela. "A Quiet Revolt Puts Costly Journals on Web." The New York Times, 26 June 2004, A15, A17.

Campbell, A. Malcolm. "Open Access: A PLoS for Education." PLoS Biology 2, no. 5 (2004): 560-563. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020145

Campbell, Bob, and Harold Varmus. Should Scientific Research Be Published on the Web Rather Than in Scientific Journals? London: BBC Radio 4, 2004. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_research_20040310.ram

D'Antonio-Gan, Elizabeth. "Open Access and the STM Publishing Crisis: A Medical Librarian's View." The Charleston Advisor 5, no. 3 (2004): 56-57.

Delamothe, Tony, and Richard Smith. "Open Access Publishing Takes Off." BMJ, 3 January 2004, 1-3. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7430/1

Doyle, Helen, Andy Gass, and Rebecca Kennison. "Open Access and Scientific Societies." PLoS Biology 2, no. 5 (2004): 549-550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020156

Editorial. "Medical Research, the Media and Open Access." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 170, no. 9 (2004): 1365. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/170/9/1365

———. "Scientific Publishing Picks Up Speed." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 168, no. 13 (2003): 1637. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/168/13/1637

Falk, Howard. "Journal Publishing Is Ripe for Change." The Electronic Library 21, no. 2 (2003): 165-168.

Fletcher, Gordon. "Averting the Crisis in Medical PublishingOpen Access Journals." Health Information on the Internet, no. 30 (2002): 1-2. http://www.biomedcentral.com/html/info/about/FletcherHOITI.pdf

Gannon, Frank. "World Wide Wisdom: Electronic Publishing Is Moving Ahead." EMBO Reports 1, no. 1 (2000): 9-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/embo-reports/kvd019

Graham, Slobodanka (Bobby). “Open access to open publish: National Library of Australia.” First Monday 12, no. 10 (2007). http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1960/1837

Hernández-Borges, Angel A., Cabrera-Rodríguez, Raúl, Montesdeoca-Melián, Abián, Martínez-Pineda, Begoña, Torres-Álvarez de Arcaya, Maria Luisa, Jiménez-Sosa, Alejandro. "Awareness and attitude of Spanish medical authors to open access publishing and the “author pays” model." Journal of the Medical Library Association" 94, no.4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1629440/

Hodgkin, Adam. "After the Tipping Point: What Next?" (2004). http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00001405/

Horton, Richard. "21st-Century Biomedical Journals: Failures and Futures." The Lancet, 8 November 2003, 1510-1512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14775-7

Jacsó, Péter. "Proxy Searching of Non-Searchable and Poorly Searchable Open Access Archives of Digital Scholarly Journals." In Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access, 6th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 8-12, 2003: Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2911, 552-555. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003.

Jørgensen, Lotte. "How to Disseminate Open Access Journals through OAI, the DOAJ Project." In CERN Workshop Series on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the Benefits of OAI (OAI3), 12-14th February 2004 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva: CERN, 2004. http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&categ=a035925&id=a035925s9t17/video

Lambert, Jill. "Developments in Electronic Publishing in the Biomedical Sciences." Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 37, no. 1 (2003): 6-15.

Lund University Libraries. Directory of Open Access Journals. http://www.doaj.org/

MacCallum, Catriona J., and Hemai Parthasarathy. "Open Access Increases Citation Rate." PLoS Biology 4, no. 5 (2006): e176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040176

Malakoff, David. "The Fight over a Phrase." Science Magazine, 24 October 2003, 552.

Mantell, Katie. "Finding Open Access Articles Becomes Easier." SciDev.Net, 10 June 2004. http://www.scidev.net/en/news/finding-open-access-articles-becomes-easier.html

Mark, Gerstein. "E-Publishing on the Web: Promises, Pitfalls, and Payoffs for Bioinformatics." Bioinformatics 15, no. 6 (1999): 429-431. http://bioinformatics.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/15/6/429.pdf

Markovitz, Barry P. "What's Happening with Open Access Journals?" Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 18, no. 3 (2003): 163.

Marshall, Eliot. "Publish and Perish in the Internet World." Science Magazine, 14 July 2000, 223-225.

Morrison, Heather. "Professional Library & Information Associations Should Rise to the Challenge of Promoting Open Access and Lead by Example." Library Hi Tech News 21, no. 4 (2004): 8-10. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/81

Pincock, Stephen. "Tool Allows Open-Access Search." The Scientist, 7 June 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040607/01

Pinfield, Stephen. "What do universities want from publishing?." Learned Publishing 17, no.4 (2004): 305-311. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/139/

Pistotti, Vanna. "Electronic Publishing in Medicine: Where Are We?" Journal of the Pancreas 2, no. 5 (2001): 301-305. http://www.joplink.net/prev/200109/01.html

Prosser, David C. "From Here to There: A Proposed Mechanism for Transforming Journals from Closed to Open Access." Learned Publishing 16, no. 3 (2003): 163-166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315103322110923

Public Library of Science. Open-Access Publication of Medical and Scientific Research: A Public Library of Science Background Paper. San Francisco: Public Library of Science, 2003. http://www.plos.org/downloads/oa_background.pdf

———. Publishing Open-Access Journals: A Brief Overview from the Public Library of Science. San Francisco: Public Library of Science, 2004. http://www.plos.org/downloads/oa_whitepaper.pdf

Scholze, Frank. "Internationalisation of information services for publishers' open access policies: the DINI multilingual integration layer" Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 28 July 2008. http://www.peh-med.com/content/3/1/19

Suber, Peter. "More on the Big Koan: Open-Access Journals." Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 23 May 2002. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-23-02.htm

Tamber, Pritpal S., Fiona Godlee, and Peter Newmark. "Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research: Making It Happen." The Lancet, 8 November 2003, 1575-1577. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14748-4

Tennant, Roy. "Open-Access Journals." Library Journal, 15 October 2003, 26. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA325079

Tenopir, Carol. "Open Access Alternatives." Library Journal, July 2004, 33. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA434444

Varmus, Harold. "Ushering in a New Age of Scientific Publishing: We Should Experiment with a Range of Open Access Models." In Freedom of Information Conference 2000. London: BioMed Central, 2000. http://www.biomedcentral.com/meetings/2000/foi/editorials/varmus

Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Gerry Rubin. "'The Switch to Open Access Publishing Is Inevitable.'" Open Access Now, 14 July 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=1

Willinsky, John, and Larry Wolfson. "The Indexing of Scholarly Journals: A Tipping Point for Publishing Reform?" The Journal of Electronic Publishing 7, no. 2 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0007.202

Wray, Richard. "Wellcome's £1.25m Plan Boosts Open Access." The Guardian, 29 June 2004. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2004/jun/29/highereducation.media

Economic Issues

General Works

Bingham, Craig M., and Martin B. Van Der Weyden. "Freedom of Information?" The Medical Journal of Australia 177, no. 11/12 (2002): 581. http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/177_11_021202/bin10739_fm.html

Chillingworth, Mark. "Springer Embraces Open Access and Choice." Information World Review, 9 July 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1156517

Cozzarelli, Nicholas R., Kenneth R. Fulton, and Diane M. Sullenberger. "Results of a PNAS Author Survey on an Open Access Option for Publication." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101, no. 5 (2004): 1111. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/101/5/1111.pdf

Crow, Raym, and Howard Goldstein. Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access. 3rd ed. New York: Open Society Institute, 2004. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/business_converting.pdf

———. Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal. 2nd ed. New York: Open Society Institute, 2003. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/business_planning.pdf

———. Model Business Plan: A Supplemental Guide for Open Access Journal Developers & Publishers. New York: Open Society Institute, 2003. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/oaj_supplement_0703.pdf

———. Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice. Washington, DC:SPARC, 2009. http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/incomemodels_v1.pdf

———."Publishing cooperatives: An alternative for Society Publishers". Washington, DC: SPARC, 2009. http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/incomemodels_v1.pdf

Delamothe, Tony, Fiona Godlee, and Richard Smith. "Scientific Literature's Open Sesame?" BMJ, 3 May 2003, 945-946. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7396/945

Delamothe, Tony, and Richard Smith. "Paying for bmj.com." BMJ, 2 August 2003, 241-242. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7409/241

Dickson, David. "Communicating Science in an Electronic Era." SciDev.Net, 3 November 2003. http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid=94&language=1

Doyle, Helen, Andy Gass, and Rebecca Kennison. "Who Pays for Open Access?" PLoS Biology 2, no. 4 (2004): 409-410. http://www.plosbiology.org/archive/1545-7885/2/4/pdf/10.1371_journal.pbio.0020105-L.pdf

Doyle, Helen J., and Melissa Hagemann. "Open Access Is Fair and Equitable." INASP Newsletter, no. 26 (2004). http://www.inasp.org.uk/newslet/jun04.html#8

Dryburgh, Alastair. "Alternative Futures for Academic and Professional Publishing." Learned Publishing 16, no. 4 (2003): 265-270. http://lysander.ingentaselect.com/vl=4154097/cl=72/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v16n4/s4/p265

———. "Open-Access Journals—Nice Idea, Shame About the Numbers?" Learned Publishing 16, no. 1 (2003): 75-76. http://titania.ingentaselect.com/vl=9578211/cl=25/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v16n1/s12/p75

Editorial. "Accelerating Access." Nature Materials 2, no. 12 (2003): 773.

———. "BMJ.com: Toll-Free No More." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 169, no. 7 (2003): 645. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/169/7/645.pdf

Esposito, Joseph J. "The Devil You Don't Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access Publishing." First Monday 9, no. 8 (2004). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/esposito/

Gannon, Frank. "Ethical Profits from Publishing." EMBO Reports 5, no. 1 (2004): 1. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v5/n1/full/7400057.html&filetype=pdf

Gass, Andy. "Paying to Free Science: Costs of Publication as Costs of Research." "Serials Review" 31, no. 2 (2005): 103-106. http://www.plos.org/downloads/serials_review_20050512.pdf

Guernsey, Lisa. "Some On-Line Journals Make Ends Meet by Charging Authors Instead of Readers." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 February 1998, A25.

Harnad, Stevan. "Electronic Scholarly Publication: Quo Vadis?" Serials Review 21, no. 1 (1995): 78-80. http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00001691/00/harnad95.quo.vadis.html

Holmström, Jonas. "The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 1 (2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january04/holmstrom/01holmstrom.html

"Howard Hughes Medical Institute Will Cover Article Charges." Open Access Now, 6 October 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=6

Jezzard, Helen. "Author Charges Possible Epublishing." Information World Review, 1 September 2001. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1150043

Joint Information Systems Committee. "Press Release: JISC and Publishers Work Together to Open Up Access to Journals." 5 March 2004. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=news_openaccess_0304

King, Donald W. "Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment?" D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 6 (2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/king/06king.html

Malakoff, David. "Money Woes Force Some to Change Course." Science Magazine, 24 October 2003, 553.

Mantell, Katie. "Open-Access Publishers Reject Unsustainability Charge." SciDev.Net, 9 March 2004. http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1268&language=1

Marincola, Francesco M. "Introduction of Article-Processing Charges (APCs) for Articles Accepted for Publication in the Journal of Translational Medicine." Journal of Translational Medicine 1 (Article 11 2003). http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/1/1/11

Mathers, Colin D., and Christopher J. L. Murray. "Introduction of Article-Processing Charges for Population Health Metrics." Population Health Metrics 1, no. 1 (Article 8 2003). http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=272941

Mayor, Susan. "Open Access Could Reduce Cost of Scientific Publishing." BMJ, 8 May 2004, 1094. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7448/1094-d

McCabe, MJ. "Open Access and Academic Journal Quality." The American economic review 95, no.2 (2005): 453. http://www.si.umich.edu/~mccabe/McCabeSnyder.pdf

O'Grady, Richard T. "Open Access? Open Wallets!" BioScience 53, no. 11 (2003): 1027. http://iris.ingentaselect.com/vl=4200998/cl=98/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/aibs/00063568/v53n11/s1/p1027

Owens, Susan R. "Revolution or Evolution? A Shift to an Open-Access Model of Publishing Would Clearly Benefit Science, but Who Should Pay?" EMBO Reports 4, no. 8 (2003): 741-743. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v4/n8/full/embor913.html&filetype=pdf

Plutchak, T. Scott. "Embracing Open Access." Journal of the Medical Library Association 92, no. 1 (2004): 1-3. http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=314095&action=stream&blobtype=pdf

Prosser, David. "On the Transition of Journals to Open Access." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 227 (2003): 1-3. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/227/openaccess.html

Prosser, David C. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Big Squeeze for Small Publishers." Learned Publishing 17, no. 1 (2004): 17-22. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000945/

"Publishing Giant Springs towards Open Access." Open Access Now, 2 August 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=19#news2

Scaria, Vinod. "Open Access with 'Author Pays' Model: Heading for the Next Serials Crisis?" Internet Health 2, no. 1 (2003). http://virtualmed.netfirms.com/internethealth/opinion0303.html

Schnelle, Cornelia, Emma Scott, and Bruce A. J. Ponder. "Breast Cancer Research: The Move to Introduce Article-Processing Charges." Breast Cancer Research 5, no. 4 (2003): 218-219. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=165026

Shattil, Sanford J. "Open Access, Yes! Open Excess, No!" Blood 103, no. 9 (2004): 3257. http://www.bloodjournal.org/cgi/content/full/103/9/3257

Sibbald, Barbara. "As One Journal Ends Open-Access Policy, A New One Embraces It." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 169, no. 7 (2003): 700. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/169/7/700-a

Slade, Elizabeth, Pritpal S. Tamber, and Jean-Louis Vincent. "Critical Care's Move to Fund Open Access." Critical Care 7, no. 5 (2003): 331-332. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=270712

Smith, Jim, and Jane Alfred. "Development and 'Open Access.'" Development 131, no. 1 (2004): 1.

Suber, Peter. "BNP Paribas Concludes That Open Access Threatens Elsevier." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 67 (2003). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-03.htm#paribas

———. "The Credit Suisse Report." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 73 (2004). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-03-04.htm#creditsuisse

———. "Dissemination Fees, Access Fees, and the Double Payment Problem." Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 1 January 2002. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-01-02.htm

———. "Objection-Reply: Do Journal Processing Fees Exclude the Poor?" SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 67 (2003). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-03.htm#objreply

———. "Objection-Reply: Whether the Upfront Payment Model Corrupts Peer Review at Open-Access Journals." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 71 (2004). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-04.htm#objreply

———. "What Do You Think of Author Fees?" Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 6 September 2001. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-06-01.htm

———. "Will FOS Do Harm? More Harm Than Good?" Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 12 October 2001. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-12-01.htm

Swan, Alma. "Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and Benefits for Universities: Report to JISC". UK: Key Perspectives, 2010. http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/442/1/Modelling_scholarly_communication_report_final.pdf

Tananbaum, Greg. "Campus-based Open-access Funds: A Practical Guide to Design and Implementation". Washington, DC:SPARC, 2010 http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/funds/guide.shtml

Traynor, Mary. "Preface." Journal of Experimental Botany 55 (July 2004): iii.

Van Orsdel, Lee, and Kathleen Born. "Closing in on Open Access." Library Journal, 15 April 2004, 45-50.

———. "Periodicals Price Survey 2008: Embracing Openness." Library Journal 133, no. 7 (15 Apr 2008): 53-58. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6547086.html

Velterop, Jan. "Author Charges Are the Future." BMC News and Views 2 (Article 2 2001). http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-8219/2/2

———. "Public Funding, Public Knowledge, Publication." Serials 16, no. 2 (2003): 169-174.

———. "Should Scholarly Journals Embrace Open Access (Or Is It the Kiss of Death)?" Learned Publishing 16, no. 3 (2003): 167-169. http://oberon.ingentaselect.com/vl=530900/cl=75/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v16n3/s2/p167

———. "To Be Useful, It Must Be Open." Research Information (Spring 2003). http://www.researchinformation.info/rispring03open.html

Walker, Thomas J. "Market-Driven Free Access to Journal Articles." The Scientist 15, no. 12 (2001): 43.

———. "Two Societies Show How to Profit by Providing Free Access." Learned Publishing 15, no. 4 (2002): 279-284. http://taddeo.ingentaselect.com/vl=2528989/cl=79/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v15n4/s6/p279

Willinsky, John. "Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing." Journal of Digital information 4, no. 2 (2003). http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Willinsky/

Wilson, Tom. "Editorial." Information Research 9, no. 3 (2004). http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/editor93.html

Zandonella, Catherine. "Economics of Open Access." The Scientist, 22 August 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030822/02

BMJ Rapid Responses about "Author Pays" May Be the New Science Publishing Model

Anderson, Patricia F. "Re: Cautious Welcome." BMJ Rapid Responses, 26 January 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#29127

Debnath, Debasish. "Free Journal? Time to Wake Up." BMJ Rapid Responses, 25 January 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#29108

Delamothe, Tony. "'Author Pays' May Be the New Science Publishing Model." BMJ, 25 January 2003, 182. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7382/182/b#31110

Guy, Ian. "Frightening Proposal." BMJ Rapid Responses, 23 January 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b##29049

Lynch, Sean P. "Different Models Are Needed." BMJ Rapid Responses, 10 April 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#31094

Marshall, Trevor G., and Frances E. Marshall. "'Author Pays' Must Have 'Open Peer Review.'" BMJ Rapid Responses, 28 January 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#29195

O'Donnell, Michael. "'Author Pays' May Be the New Publishing Model." BMJ Rapid Responses, 11 April 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#31110

Prosser, David C. "A Unique Opportunity." BMJ Rapid Responses, 11 February 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#29552

Richardson, Martin. "Economic Models of Scientific Publishing." BMJ Rapid Responses, 4 February 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#29393

Risk, Ahmad. "Cautious Welcome." BMJ Rapid Responses, 25 January 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#29109

Scaria, Vinod. "Open Access: At What Cost?" BMJ Rapid Responses, 30 January 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7382/182/b#29256

Open Access Journal Change Agents

SPARC

Albanese, Andrew. "SPARC Launches European Offensive." Library Journal, 1 September 2001, 22-24.

———. "SPARC to Researchers, Faculty: Declare Independence." Library Journal, 1 February 2001, 14.

Bachrach, Steven. "SPARC: The View from the Faculty." Serials 14, no. 2 (2001): 137.

Blixrud, Julia C. "SPARC: Setting Sail into the Seas of Competition." The Serials Librarian 40, no. 1/2 (2002): 117-128.

Buckholtz, Alison. "Declaring Independence." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 214 (2001): 1-5. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/214/sparc.html

———. "Declaring Independence: Returning Scientific Publishing to Scientists." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 7, no. 1 (2001). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/buckholtz.html

———. "Electronic Genesis: E-Journals in the Sciences." Academe 85, no. 5 (1999): 65-68. http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/1999/99so/SO99BUCK.HTM

———. "SPARC Ignites Scholarly Publishing." Research Information (Summer 2002). http://www.researchinformation.info/risummer02sparc.html

———. "SPARC's Initiative." In 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Gaining Independence with E-Prints Archives and OAI, CERN, 17-19 October 2002, Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva: CERN, 2002. http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&categ=a02333&id=a02333s9t1/video

Case, Mary. "Igniting Change in Scholarly Communication: SPARC, Its Past, Present, and Future." In Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 26, edited by Frederick C. Lynden, 1-27. San Diego: Academic Press, 2002. http://www.arl.org/sparc/SPARC_Advances.pdf

Case, Mary M. "ARL Promotes Competition through SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 196 (1998): 1-5. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/196/sparc.html

Frazier, Ken. "Liberating Scholarship." Library Journal, 15 October 1998, 40-41.

———. "SPARC: Encouraging New Models of Disseminating Knowledge." Collection Building 19, no. 3 (2000): 117-123.

Friend, Frederick J. "SPARC In Europe." Serials 14, no. 2 (2001): 138.

Garwin, Laura. "Journal Prices Lead Libraries to Back Less Costly Initiatives." Nature, 25 June 1998, 719.

Johnson, Richard K. "Competition: A Unifying Ideology for Change in Scholarly Communications." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 203 (1999): 6-7. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/203/competition.html

———. "A Question of Access: SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing." D-Lib Magazine 6, no. 5 (2000). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may00/johnson/05johnson.html

Kiernan, Vincent. "Group Seeks On-Line Alternatives to High-Cost Scholarly Journals." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 April 1999, A30.

Michalak, Sarah C. "The Evolution of SPARC." Serials Review 26, no. 1 (2000): 10-21.

Miller, Kathy. "Court and SPARC." Information World Review, 1 September 1998. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1145413

Neal, Jim. "SPARC Chair Reports to AIBS Members: Beyond BioOne." Bioscience 52, no. 7 (2002): 631-633. http://iris.ingentaselect.com/vl=870834/cl=71/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/aibs/00063568/v52n7/s16/p627

Oliver, Marina. "SPARC: An Alternative Lifestyle for Academic Libraries." Collection Management 25, no. 1/2 (2000): 37-49.

Peek, Robin. "SPARC Is Ready to Go Mainstream." Information Today 19, no. 6 (2002): 38.

Rambler, Mark. "Do It Yourself? A New Solution to the Journals Crisis." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4, no. 3 (1999). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/rambler.html

Savenije, Bas. "The SPARC Initiative: A Catalyst for Change." (2004). http://www.library.uu.nl/staff/savenije/publicaties/ticer2004.htm

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Declaring Independence: A Guide to Creating Community-Controlled Science Journals. Washington, DC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2001. http://www.arl.org/sparc/DI/Declaring_Independence.pdf

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, and Joshua Jia. "Electronic Journals, Prestige, and the Economics of Academic Journal Publishing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.1 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2426

Watkinson, Anthony. "A Publishing View of the SPARC Initiative." Against the Grain 12, no. 6 (2001): 38, 40.

Weiser, Allison. "Two More Groups Endorse SPARC." Library Journal, 15 September 1998, 20.

Open Access Journal Publishers and Distributors

BioMed Central

Albanese, Andrew. "BioMed Central Changes Tack." Library Journal, 15 March 2004, 17-18. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA386750

Amber, Dave. "Scientists, Publishers, Societies—and Turf." The Scientist 14, no. 17 (2000): 1.

BioMed Central. "Why Do Our Authors Submit to BioMed Central Journals?" (2004). http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/authorsubmit

Butler, Declan. "BioMed Central Boosted by Editorial Board." Nature, 25 May 2000, 384.

Chillingworth, Mark. "BioMed Central Seeks Open Access Advice." Information World Review, 9 August 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1157218

Cockerill, Matthew. "Online Research Archive Will be Free to All." Nature, 16 December 1999, 721-722.

Delamothe, Tony. "Fees Waived for University Researchers Publishing through BioMed Central." BMJ, 21 June 2003, 1350-1351. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7403/1350-d

Galbraith, Kate. "British Researchers Get to Publish in 90 Online Medical Journals Free." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 July 2003, A28.

Gavaghan, Helen. "Open-Access Publishing Finds Official Favor." The Scientist, 30 June 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030630/05

Godlee, Fiona. "Peer Review in the E-Environment." In Freedom of Information Conference 2000. London: BioMed Central, 2000. http://www.biomedcentral.com/meetings/2000/foi/transcripts/godlee

Loxton, Liz. "NHS Information Project Launched." Information World Review, 1 May 2003. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1150650

MacLeod, Donald. "Publish and Be Free." The Guardian, 17 June 2003. http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,978753,00.html

"Open Access Journals Proven to Compete on Quality." Medical News Today, 26 June 2004. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=9953#

Peel, John. "BioMed Central." D-Lib Magazine 6, no. 2 (2000). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/02inbrief.html#PEEL

Quint, Barbara. "BioMed Central Begins Charging Authors and Their Institutions for Article Publishing." Information Today 19, no. 2 (2002): 37, 39. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020107-1.htm

———. "BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals." Information Today 18, no. 9 (2001): 24-25. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010903-1.htm

Shearer, Kathleen. BioMed Central: An Alternative to Scholarly Publishing. Ottawa: Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2002. CARL/ABRC Backgrounder Series No. 4. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/scholarly/biomed_central.PDF

Suber, Peter. "BioMed Central's Method of FOS." 6 September 2001. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-06-01.htm

Watson, Linda A., Ivan S. Login, and Jeffrey M. Burns. "Exploring New Ways to Publish: A Library-Faculty Partnership." Journal of the Medical Library Association 91, no. 2 (2003): 245-247. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?action=stream&blobtype=pdf&artid=153166

Young, Jeffrey R. "Publisher of Free Online Science Journal Charges Authors a 'Processing Fee.'" The Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 January 2002, A36.

Public Library of Science

Adam, David. "Scientists Take on the Publishers in an Experiment to Make Research Free to All." The Guardian, 6 October 2003. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1056608,00.html

Albanese, Andrew. "Open Access Gains with PLoS Launch: Scientists Call for Cell Press Boycott; Harvard Balks on Big Deal." Library Journal, 15 November 2003, 18-19.

Bernstein, Philip, Barbara Cohen, Catriona MacCallum, Hemai Parthasarathy, Mark Patterson, and Vivian Siegel. "PLoS Biology—We're Open." PLoS Biology 1, no. 1 (2003): 3. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000034

Brower, Vicki. "Public Library of Science Shifts Gears." EMBO Reports 2, no. 11 (2001): 972-973. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v2/n11/full/embor282.html&filetype=pdf

Brown, Patrick O., Michael B. Eisen, and Harold E. Varmus. "Why PLoS Became a Publisher." PLoS Biology 1, no. 1 (2003): 1-2. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000036

Butler, Declan. "Public Library Set to Turn Publisher as Boycott Looms." Nature, 2 August 2001, 469. http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/butler3.html

———. "Scientific Publishing: Who Will Pay for Open Access?" Nature, 9 October 2003, 554-555. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v425/n6958/full/425554a_fs.html

Case, Mary. "The Public Library of Science." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 215 (2001): 4. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/215/plos.html

Case, Mary M. "Public Access to Scientific Information: Are 22,700 Scientists Wrong?" College & Research Libraries News 62, no. 7 (2001): 706-709, 716. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2001/julyaugust2/publicaccess.htm

Cohen, Barbara. "PLoS Biology in Action." PLoS Biology 2, no. 1 (2004): 1. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0020025

———. "PLoS Medicine." PLoS Biology 2, no. 2 (2004): 139. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0020063

Doyle, Helen. "Public Library of Science (PLoS): Committed to Making the World's Scientific and Medical Literature A Public Resource." ASIDIC Newsletter, no. 87 (2004): 9-10. http://www.asidic.org/meetings/newsletters/spring2004.pdf

Doyle, Helen J. "The Public Library of Science—Open Access from the Ground Up." College & Research Libraries News 65, no. 3 (2004): 134-136. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/march04/publiclibraryscience.htm

Eaton, Lynn. "'Free' Medical Publishing Venture Gets Under Way." BMJ, 4 January 2003, 11. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/11/b

Eisen, Michael. "Publish and Be Praised." The Guardian, 9 October 2003. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,1058578,00.html

Foster, Andrea L. "Scientists Plan 2 Online Journals to Make Articles Available Free." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 January 2003, A29.

Gallagher, Richard. "Will Walls Come Tumbling Down?" The Scientist 17, no. 5 (2003): 15.

Kleiner, Kurt. "Free Online Journal Gives Sneak Preview." New Scientist, 19 August 2003, 18. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994071

Knight, Jonathan. "Journal Boycott Presses Demand for Free Access." Nature, 6 September 2001, 6.

Malakoff, David. "Opening the Books on Open Access." Science Magazine, 24 October 2003, 550-554.

Mantell, Katie. "Open-Access Journal Seeks to Cut Costs for Researchers." SciDev.Net, 15 January 2004. http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1194&language=1

Mason, Betsy. "Cell Editor Joins PLoS." The Scientist, 13 January 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030113/05/

———. "New Open-Access Journals." The Scientist, 20 December 2002. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20021220/06/

McLaughlin, Andrew. "Senior Scientists Promise to Boycott Journals." The Scientist, 2 November 2000. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20001102/03/

Medeiros, Norm. "Of Budgets and Boycotts: The Battle over Open Access Publishing." OCLC Systems & Services 20, no. 1 (2004): 7-10.

Mellman, Ira. "Setting Logical Priorities: A Boycott Is Not the Best Route to Free Exchange of Scientific Information." Nature, 26 April 2001, 1026.

Ojala, Marydee. "Intro to Open Access: The Public Library of Science." EContent 26, no. 10 (2003): 11-12. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=5552&Query=intro

Olsen, Florence. "Scholars Urge Boycott of Journals That Won't Join Free Archives." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 April 2001, A43.

Peek, Robin. "Can Science and Nature Be Trumped?" Information Today 20, no. 2 (2003): 19, 50-51.

———. "The Future of the Public Library of Science." Information Today 19, no. 2 (2002): 28.

———. "The Scholarly Publisher as Midwife." Information Today 18, no. 7 (2001): 32.

Pickering, Bobby. "Medical Journals to Get Open Access Rival." Information World Review, 21 May 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1155321

Public Library of Science. "Open Letter to Scientific Publishers." (2001). http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html

Reich, Margaret. "Peace, Love, and PLoS." The Physiologist 46, no. 4 (2003): 137, 139-141. http://www.the-aps.org/news/PloS.pdf

Russo, Eugene. "New Adventures in Science Publishing." The Scientist 15, no. 21 (2001): 12.

———. "A Science Publishing Revolution." The Scientist 15, no. 8 (2001): 1.

Schubert, Charlotte. "PLoS Snaps Up Cell Editor." Nature Medicine 9, no. 2 (2003): 154-155.

Stankus, Tony. "The Public Library of Science Passes Its First Biology Test." Technicalities 23, no. 6 (2003): 4-5.

Suber, Peter. "The Launch of PLoS Biology." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 67 (2003). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-03.htm#launch

Thibodeau, Patricia L., and Carla J. Funk. "Quality Information for Improved Health." PLoS Biology 2, no. 2 (2004): 171-172. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0020048

Trayhurn, Paul. "The Public Library of Science and 'Open Access' to the Scientific Literature." British Journal of Nutrition 87, no. 1 (2002): 1-2. http://titania.ingentaselect.com/vl=5395598/cl=41/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/cgi?body=linker&ini=nlm&reqidx=issn=0007-1145vl=87is=1yr=2002mn=Janpg=1

Twyman, Nick. "Launching PLoS BiologySix Months in the Open." Serials 17, no. 2 (2004): 127-131.

Velterop, Jan. "Vendor View." Information World Review, 1 December 2001. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1150688

Wadman, Meredith. "Publishers Challenged over Access to Papers." Nature, 29 March 2001, 502.

Walgate, Robert. "PLoS Biology Launches." The Scientist, 10 October 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031010/10/

Weiss, Rick. "A Fight for Free Access to Medical Research: Online Plan Challenges Publishers' Dominance." Washington Post, 5 August 2003, A01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A19104-2003Aug4&notFound=true

PubMed Central

General Works

Blumenstyk, Goldie, and Vincent Kiernan. "Idea of On-Line Archives of Papers Sparks Debate on Future of Journals." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 July 1999, A25.

Breithaupt, Holger, and Harold Varmus. "A Mover in the Biomedical Community." EMBO Reports 2, no. 5 (2001): 360-362. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v2/n5/full/embor414.html

Burke, Marianne. "PubMed Central: Be Careful What You Ask For." College & Research Libraries News 61, no. 1 (2000): 21-23.

Butler, Declan. "Europe's Molecular Biologists Could Join Global E-Journal Plan." Nature, 27 May 1999, 292.

———. "Publishers Map Out a Way Forward in Response to Free Online Archives." Nature, 11 November 1999, 115.

———. "Publishing Group Offers Peer Review on PubMed Central." Nature, 11 November 1999, 110.

Butler, Declan, and Meredith Wadman. "Mixed Response to NIH's Web Journal Plan." Nature, 6 May 1999, 8-9.

Caelleigh, Addeane S. "PubMed Central and the New Publishing Landscape: Shifts and Tradeoffs." Academic Medicine 75, no. 1 (2000): 4-10. http://www.academicmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/75/1/4

Campbell, Paulette W. "NIH May Use the Internet to Distribute Findings of Research Financed by Its Grants." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 May 1999, A33.

Case, Mary M. "NIH Proposes E-biosci." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 205 (1999): 7. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/205/ebiosci.html

Day, Michael. "The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal." Ariadne, no. 21 (1999). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/pubmed/

Delamothe, Tony. "NIH outlines strategy for electronic database." BMJ, 1 May 1999, 1165. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7192/1165/b

Delamothe, Tony, and Richard Smith. "PubMed Central: Creating an Aladdin's Cave of Ideas." BMJ, 6 January 2001, 1-2. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/322/7277/1

Editorial. "Would You Use an E-Print Server?" Nature Structural Biology 6, no. 5 (1999): 399-400.

Ewing, John H. "No Free Lunches: We Should Resist the Push to Rush Research Online." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 October 2001, B14.

Fleckman, Philip. "Online Publishing and Repositories. PubMed Central vs. IASTMP." Dermatology Online Journal 5, no. 2 (Article 13 1999). http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5num2/editorials/fleckman.html

Greenberg, Daniel S. "National Institutes of Health moves ahead with 'PubMed Central.'" The Lancet, 18 September 1999, 1009.

Homan, J. Michael, and Linda A. Watson. "STM Publishing Meets NIH Digital Archive: Librarian Service on the PubMed Central National Advisory Committee." Reference Services Review 32, no. 1 (2004): 83-88.

"Individual Open Access Articles on PubMed Central." Open Access Now, 19 January 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=12

Kiernan, Vincent. "Editor of 'Science' Voices Doubts on NIH's Proposed On-Line Archive." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 July 1999, A41.

———. "NIH Proceeds with On-Line Archive for Papers in the Life Sciences." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 September 1999, A33.

Kling, Rob, Joanna Fortuna, and Adam King. The Remarkable Transformation of E-Biomed into PubMed Central. Bloomington, IN: Center for Social Informatics, SLIS, Indiana University, 2001. WP-01-03. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/WP/wp01-03B.html

Kling, Rob, Lisa B. Spector, and Joanna Fortuna. "The Real Stakes of Virtual Publishing: The Transformation of E-Biomed into PubMed Central." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55, no. 2 (2004): 127-148.

Koenig, Robert. "Publishers Discuss European E-Print Site." Science Magazine, 28 January 2000, 563-564.

Lipman, David. "PubMed Central: Still on Course to Revolutionise Biomedical Publishing." In Freedom of Information Conference 2000. London: BioMed Central, 2000. http://www.biomedcentral.com/meetings/2000/foi/editorials/lipman

Macilwain, Colin. "Internet Publishing Camps Renew Hostilities." Nature, 13 July 2000, 112.

Markovitz, Barry P. "Biomedicine's Electronic Publishing Paradigm Shift: Copyright Policy and PubMed Central." The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 7, no. 3 (2000): 222-229. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=61424

Marshall, Eliot. "E-biomed Morphs to E-biosci, Focus Shifts to Reviewed Papers." Science Magazine, 6 August 1999, 810-811.

———. "NIH Weighs Bold Plan for Online Preprint Publishing." Science Magazine, 12 March 1999, 1610-1611.

———. "PNAS to Join PubMed Central—On Condition." Science Magazine, October 22 1999, 655-656.

———. "U. S., European Backers Differ on E-biomed Plan." Science Magazine, 16 July 1999, 315.

———. "Varmus Circulates Proposal for NIH-Backed Online Venture." Science Magazine, 30 April 1999, 718.

———. "Varmus Defends E-biomed Proposal, Prepares to Push Ahead." Science Magazine, 25 June 1999, 2062-2063.

McCollum, Kelly. "NIH Proposal for On-Line Publication Draws Fire." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 June 1999, A30.

Peek, Robin. "The NIH's Grand Proposal." Information Today 16, no. 9 (1999): 40.

———. "The PubMed Central Repository Launches." Information Today 17, no. 4 (2000): 38.

Pope, Liz. "PubMed Central: A Barrier-Free Repository for the Life Sciences." The Serials Librarian 40, no. 1/2 (2001): 183-190.

Quint, Barbara. "The NIH's E-Biomed Initiative." Information Today 16, no. 8 (1999): 10, 12-13. http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep99/quint.htm

Roberts, Richard J. "PubMed Central: The GenBank of the Published Literature." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98, no. 2 (2001): 381-382. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/98/2/381.pdf

Sequeira, Edwin. "PubMed Central." ASIDIC Newsletter, no. 87 (2004): 10. http://www.asidic.org/meetings/newsletters/spring2004.pdf

———. "PubMed Central—Three Years Old and Growing Stronger." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 228 (2003): 5-9. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/228/pubmed.html

Singer, Peter A. "Medical Journals Are Dead. Long Live Medical Journals." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 162, no. 4 (2000): 517-518. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/4/517

Smaglik, Paul. "E-Biomed Becomes PubMed Central." The Scientist 13, no. 19 (1999): 8.

———. "Science Publishing Evolves: Tangled in the Web." The Scientist 13, no. 12 (1999): 1.

Sultzbaugh, Lance. "The New Scientific Publishing Wars." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 September 1999, A72.

Turner, Judith Axler. "PubMed Central: A Good Idea." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 5, no. 3 (2000). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/turner0503.html

Varmus, Harold, David Lipman, and Pat Brown. "PubMed Central: An NIH-Operated Site for Electronic Distribution of Life Sciences Research Reports." (1999). http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/ebi.htm

Wadman, Meredith. "Critics Query Financing of Proposed 'E-Biomed.'" Nature, 15 July 1999, 200.

Weitzman, Jonathan B., and David Lipman. "Public Archives Ensure a Bright Future for the Scientific Literature." Open Access Now, 28 July 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=2

Science Magazine dEbate on "Building a GenBank of the Published Literature"

Bienkowski, Alex. "No Literature GenBank Now." Science Magazine dEbate, 11 April 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#296

Edgcombe, Frank. "Redundancy of Scientific Literature." Science Magazine dEbate, 29 March 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#282

Green, Joan. "Central Archives at Individual Institutions." Science Magazine dEbate, 11 April 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#295

Harnad, Stevan. "Parallel Debate in Nature." Science Magazine dEbate, 4 May 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#307

Henderson, Albert. "A Look Libraries." Science Magazine dEbate, 16 April 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#302

Lester, Diane. "Journal Profits." Science Magazine dEbate, 4 May 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#308

Mauws, Michael. "A Central Repository Requires Grassroots Participation." Science Magazine dEbate, 4 May 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#310

Roberts, Richard J., Harold E. Varmus, Michael Ashburner, Patrick O. Brown, Michael B. Eisen, Chaitan Khosla, Marc Kirschner, Roel Nusse, Matthew Scott, and Barbara Wold. "Building A 'GenBank' of the Published Literature." Science Magazine, 23 March 2001, 2318-2319. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5512/2318a

Sack, John. "A European Perspective." Science Magazine dEbate, 29 March 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#283

Seidel, Chris. "Sharing Personal Libraries." Science Magazine dEbate, 13 April 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#298

Stoudenmire, Sterling. "'Public Domain Knowledge,' Not a Private Property Right." Science Magazine dEbate, 9 April 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#292

Velterop, Johannes. "Fee or Free?" Science Magazine dEbate, 4 May 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a#309

Science Magazine dEbate on "Is a Government Archive the Best Option?"

Editorial. "Is a Government Archive the Best Option?" Science Magazine, 23 March 2001, 2318-2319. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5512/2318b

Eisen, Michael. "Public Library of Science Response." Science Magazine dEbate, 29 May 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318b#314

Harnad, Stevan. "AAAS's Response: Too Little, Too Late." Science Magazine dEbate, 2 April 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318b#280

Reynolds, Lawrence P. "Scientific Society Publishers." Science Magazine dEbate, 11 April 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318b#297

Singer, Peter. "Strategy, Tactics, and Ethics." Science Magazine dEbate, 9 April 2001. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318b#293

Science Magazine dEbate on "Just a Minute, Please"

Bloom, Floyd E. "Just a Minute, Please." Science Magazine, 9 July 1999, 197.

Buchanan, J. "Publishing: Fast Buck Versus Improving Health Care." Science Magazine dEbate, 14 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#2

Burry, Richard W. "E-biomed—Is It Information Overload." Science Magazine dEbate, 20 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#4

Bylund, David B. "Money and Power." Science Magazine dEbate, 22 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#7

Cozzarelli, Nicholas R. "A Great Advance." Science Magazine dEbate, 19 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#3

Das, Tapan. "Is E-biomed a Sound Idea?" Science Magazine dEbate, 9 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#1

Gitschier, Jane. "A Vote of Confidence for E-biomed." Science Magazine dEbate, 31 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#10

Halsted, Charles H. "E-biomed Craziness." Science Magazine dEbate, 26 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#9

Harnad, Stevan. "Advancing Science by Self-Archiving Refereed Research." Science Magazine dEbate, 31 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#11

Marchesi, Vincent. "Users Are Well Served by the Present System." Science Magazine dEbate, 20 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#6

McDonald, Peter. "E-biomed Raises Bigger Issues." Science Magazine dEbate, 22 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#5

Thind, Dr. Paul. "Peer Review Versus Open Submission." Science Magazine dEbate, 18 April 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#300

Thomas, Anne. "Readers Should Note. . ." Science Magazine dEbate, 26 July 1999. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/285/5425/197#8

Other

Butler, Declan. "Biology Back Issues Free as Publishers Walk HighWire." Nature, 9 March 2000, 117.

Castelli, Donatella, Pasquale Pagano, and Umberto Straccia. "Scholnet and Cyclades: Extending the Role of Digital Libraries." D-Lib Magazine 7, no. 4 (2001). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april01/04inbrief.html#CASTELLI

Delamothe, Tony. "Navigating across Medicine's Electronic Landscape, Stopping at Places with Pub or Central in Their Names." BMJ, 10 November 2001, 1120-1122. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/323/7321/1120?ijkey=8d9d6a50aa886f41719e8d801215b1e9c95ab0fe&

Gradmann, Stefan. "Figaro and Open Access to Electronic Information Objects." Information Services & Use 23, no. 2/3 (2003): 175-177.

———. "FIGARO and Open Access to Electronic Information Objects." In Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of the Art and Future Trends, Paris, 23-24 January 2003, Carré des Sciences, Ministère de la Recherche. Nancy, France: INIST-CNRS, 2003. http://webcast.in2p3.fr/openaccess/gradmann.ram

Misek, Marla. "HighWire Press: Keeping the Scholars in Scholarly Publishing." EContent 27, no. 7/8 (2004): 44-45. http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/EContent/2004/07/01/519487?extID=10026

Peek, Robin. "Two Initiatives Support PubMed Central Model." Information Today 17, no. 3 (2000): 3. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb000214-1.htm

Pfeffer, Suzanne. "The ASCB's Commitment to Free Access Publishing." American Society for Cell Biology Newsletter 26, no. 2 (2003): 2. http://www.ascb.org/news/vol26no2/ns/february-03.html

Savenije, Bas. "Electronic Publishing in Academic Environments: The FIGARO Project." In 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Gaining Independence with E-Prints Archives and OAI, CERN, 17-19 October 2002, Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva: CERN, 2002. http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&categ=a02333&id=a02333s15t3/video

———. "The FIGARO Project: A New Approach Towards Academic Publishing." Learned Publishing 16, no. 3 (2003): 183-188. http://konstanza.ingentaselect.com/vl=614180/cl=27/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v16n3/s5/p183

Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Elizabeth Marincola. "The Society Lady." Open Access Now, 6 October 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=6

Young, Jeffrey R. "Stanford-Based HighWire Press Transforms Publication of Scientific Journals." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 May 1997, A21-A22.

Specific Open Access Journals

Journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals

Adair, James R. "TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism: A Modern Experiment in Studying the Ancients." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3, no. 1 (1997). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/TC.html

Amir, Lisa H. "International Breastfeeding Journal: Introducing a new journal." International Breastfeeding Journal 1, no. 1 (March 9, 2006), http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/1/1/1.

Anderson, Terry. "Something New?Something Old." International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 5, no. 2 (2004). http://www.irrodl.org/content/v5.2/editorial.html

Arms, William Y. "D-Lib Magazine after Five Years." D-Lib Magazine 6, no. 6 (2000). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/06editorial.html

Brown, Genevieve, and Beverly J. Irby. "Fourteen Lessons: Initiating and Editing an Online Professional Refereed Journal." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 8, no. 1 (2002). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/08-01/irby.html

Clare, Nicola. "JILT (Journal of Information, Law and Technology)." Ariadne, no. 4 (1996). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue4/jilt/

Editorial. "Editorial." Journal of Biology 3, no. 2 (Article 5 2004). http://jbiol.com/content/3/2/5

Friedlander, Amy. "D-LIB Magazine: Publishing as the Honest Broker." The Serials Librarian 33, no. 1/2 (1998): 1-20.

Gallagher, Richard. "Above and Beyond Open Access." The Scientist 18, no. 6 (2004): 6.

Hawley, John B. "The JCI's Commitment to Excellence—and Free Access." The Journal of Clinical Investigation 112, no. 7 (2003): 968-969. http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/full/112/7/968

Haynes, John. "New Journal of Physics: A Web-Based and Author-Funded Journal." Learned Publishing 12, no. 4 (1999): 265-269. http://lysander.ingentaselect.com/vl=4154097/cl=72/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v12n4/s5/p265

Henshaw, Robin, and Edward J. Valauskas. "Metadata as Catalyst: Experiments with Metadata and Search Engines in the Internet Journal, First Monday." Libri 51, no. 2 (2001): 86-101.

Holling, C. S. (Buzz). "Lessons for Sustaining Ecological Science and Policy through the Internet." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 5, no. 4 (2000). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/holling.html

Kirriemuir, John. "The Professional Web-zine and Parallel Publishing: Ariadne: The Web Version." D-Lib Magazine (February 1997). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february97/ariadne/02kirriemuir.html

Krishnaswamy, Guha, and David S. Chi. "Clinical and Molecular Allergy: A New Open Access Journal That Addresses Rapidly Evolving Information in the Field of Allergy and Immunology." Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2 (Article 1 2004). http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/2/1/1

McKiernan, Gerry. "Perspectives in Electronic Publishing: An Open Access-Dynamic-Virtual Electronic Journal." Library Hi Tech News 18, no. 9 (2001): 19-27. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeP.pdf

Mrak, Robert E., and W. Sue T. Griffin. "Welcome to the Journal of Neuroinflammation!" Journal of Neuroinflammation 1 (Article 1 2004). http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/1/1/1

"NIH Journal Converts to Open Access." Open Access Now, 16 February 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=13

Olden, Kenneth, and Thomas J. Goehl. "EHP Moves to Open Access." Environmental Health Perspectives 112, no. 1 (2004): A13-A14. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2004/112-1/EHP112pa12PDF.PDF

Pandey, Manoj, Steven D. Heys, and Albert B. Lowenfels. "World Journal of Surgical Oncology: One Year of Open Access Publishing." World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2 (Article 14 2004). http://www.wjso.com/content/2/1/14

Pöschl, Ulrich. "Interactive Journal Concept for Improved Scientific Publishing and Quality Assurance." Learned Publishing 17, no. 2 (2004): 105-113.

Ramachandran, P. V. "Online, Open Access Journals: The Only Hope for the Future." Calicut Medical Journal 1, no. 1 (Article e1 2003). http://calicutmedicaljournal.org/2003;1(1)e1.htm

Rehmann, Ulf. "Documenta Mathematica, a SPARC Partner: How to Run a Community-Owned Scientific Journal. A Report after Seven Years of Practical Experience." In 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Gaining Independence with E-Prints Archives and OAI, CERN, 17-19 October 2002, Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva: CERN, 2002. http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&categ=a02333&id=a02333s9t3/video

———. "Documenta Mathematica: A Community-Driven Scientific Journal." High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, no. 8 (2003). http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/8/papers/3/

Rocha, Eduardo, David E. Hinton, and Eddie Wisse. "Comparative Hepatology: A Journal for All Hepatologists with Immediate Open Access to Quality Peer-Reviewed Research." Comparative Hepatology 3 (Article 1 2004). http://www.comparative-hepatology.com/content/3/1/1

Roel, Eulalia. "Electronic Journal Publication: A New Library Contribution to Scholarly Communication Two Years On." College & Research Libraries News 65, no. 1 (2004): 23-26. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/crlbackjan504/electronicjournal.htm

Shidham, Vinod B., Anthony Cafaro, and Barbara F. Atkinson. "CytoJournal Joins 'Open Access' Philosophy." CytoJournal 1 (Article 1 2004). http://www.cytojournal.com/content/1/1/1

Shum, Simon Buckingham, and Tamara Sumner. "JIME: An Interactive Journal for Interactive Media." First Monday 6, no. 2 (2001). http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_2/buckingham_shum/index.html

Simo, Pep, and Jose M. Sallan. "Intangible Capital: Four Years of Growth as an Open-access Scientific Publication." Intangible Capital 4, no. 1 (2008). http://www.intangiblecapital.org/index.php/ic/article/view/73

Sinclair, Alison. "BMJ on PubMed Central." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 164, no. 3 (2001): 394. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/164/3/394

Solomon, David J. (2007). "Medical Education Online: A Case Study of an Open Access Journal in Health Professional Education." Information Research 12, no. 2 (2007). http://InformationR.net/ir/12-2/paper301.html

Sumner, Tamara, and Simon Buckingham Shum. "Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals." Ariadne, no. 5 (1996). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/jime/

Stamm, Thomas, Ulrich Meyer, Hans-Peter Wiesmann, Johannes Kleinheinz, Murat Cehrelia and Zafer C Cehereli. "A retrospective analysis of submissions, acceptance rate, open peer review operations, and prepublication bias of the multidisciplinary open access journal Head & Face Medicine", Head & Face Medicine 3, no. 27 (2007). http://www.head-face-med.com/content/3/1/27

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, and Joshua Jia. "Electronic Journals, Prestige, and the Economics of Academic Journal Publishing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.1 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2426

Turner, Judith Axler. "Mickey, Judy, Colin, and Me." First Monday 3, no. 1 (1998). http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_1/turner/

Valauskas, Edward J. "Waiting for Thomas Kuhn: First Monday and the Evolution of Electronic Journals." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3, no. 1 (1997). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/FirstMonday.html

Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Richard Smith. "Keeping Open House at the BMJ." Open Access Now, 16 February 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=13

Wheary, Jennifer, and Bernard F. Schutz. "Living Reviews in Relativity: Making an Electronic Journal Live." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3, no. 1 (1997). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/LR.html

Wheary, Jennifer, Lee Wild, Bernard Schutz, and Christina Weyher. "Living Reviews in Relativity: Thinking and Developing Electronically." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4, no. 2 (1998). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/wheary2.html

Willinsky, J. & Mendis, R. "Open access on a zero budget: a case study of Postcolonial Text" Information Research, vol. 12, no.3, (2007). http://InformationR.net/ir/12-3/paper308.html

Wilson, T. D. "Information Research: A Case Study in the Free Electronic Publication of Research." Vine, no. 111 (1998): 10-16.

Young, Simon N., and Russell T. Joffe. "The Cost of Accessing Research Results and the Public Library of Science." Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience 26, no. 5 (2001): 373. http://www.cma.ca/multimedia/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/jpn/vol-26/issue-5/pdf/pg373.pdf

Pioneering Free E-Journals Not in the DOAJ

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "Electronic (Online) Publishing in Action . . . The Public-Access Computer Systems Review and Other Electronic Serials." ONLINE 15, no. 1 (1991): 28-35.

Collins, Mauri P., and Zane L. Berge. "IPCT Journal: A Case Study of an Electronic Journal on the Internet." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 45, no. 10 (1994): 771-776.

Ensor, Pat, and Thomas Wilson. "Public-Access Computer Systems Review: Testing the Promise." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3, no. 1 (1997). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/pacs.html

Hugo, Jane, and Linda Newell. "New Horizons in Adult Education: The First Five Years (1987-1991)." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2, no. 1 (1991): 77-90. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/hugo.2n1

Jennings, Edward M. "EJournal: An Account of the First Two Years." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2, no. 1 (1991): 91-110. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/jennings.2n1

Jul, Erik. "Present at the Beginning." Computers in Libraries 12 (April 1992): 44-45.

Kenney, Anne R., Nancy McGovern, Barbara Berger Eden, Robin Dale, Richard Entlich, Peter Botticelli, and Carla DeMello. "RLG DigiNews: Taking Stock at Five Years." RLG DigiNews 6, no. 2 (2002). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/v6_n2_feature1.html

Nadasdy, Zoltan. "Electronic Journal of Cognitive and Brain Sciences: A Truly All-Electronic Journal: Let Democracy Replace Peer Review." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3, no. 1 (1997). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/EJCBS.html

Pezzutto, Donato. “Scholars without Boarders.” OPUSeJ Open-access Peer-reviewed Universal Scholarly electronic Journal. http://www.opusej.org/.

Robison, Elwin C. "Architecture, Graphics, and the Net: A Short History of Architronic, a Peer-Reviewed E-Journal." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 3 (1996): 5-12. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n3/robi7n3.html

Ward, Kevin. "The Katharine Sharp Review." Ariadne, no. 5 (1996). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/katharine-sharp/

Widzinski, Lori J. "The Evolution of MC Journal : A Case Study in Producing a Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journal." Serials Review 23, no. 2 (1997): 59-72.

———. "MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship." Ariadne, no. 5 (1996). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/academic-media/

Other

Gretchen Wagner. "Sharing Visual Arts Images for Educational Use: Finding a New Angle of Repose." Journal of Electronic Publishing. Vol. 11, no. 3, Fall 2008. Ann Arbor, MI: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan, University Library. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;cc=jep;rgn=main;view=text;idno=3336451.0011.302

"APS Unveils an Open Access Choice for Authors of Physiological Genomics." The Physiologist 46, no. 3 (2003): 105. http://www.the-aps.org/publications/tphys/2003html/June03/publications.htm#access

Chillingworth, Mark. "CSA Embraces Green Open Access Policy." Information World Review, 11 June 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1155827

———. "OUP Joins the Open Access Bandwagon." Information World Review, 6 July 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1156451

Clarke, Michael T. "Open Sesame? Increasing Access to Medical Literature." Pediatrics 114, no. 1 (2004): 265-268. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/114/1/265

Cozzarelli, Nicholas R. "An Open Access Option for PNAS." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101, no. 23 (2004): 8509. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0403554101v1.pdf

"Encouraging Results from the Oxford Experiment." Open Access Now, 12 April 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=15

Mellman, Ira. "Providing Realistic Access." The Journal of Cell Biology 165, no. 1 (2004): 19-20. http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/165/1/19?ijkey=f386571fc6b74749cd8454bcc3f27e932910fcc0&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

"OUP Takes a Bold Step Following Its Open Access Experiment." Open Access Now, 2 August 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=19#news1

Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Martin Richardson. "An Oxford NARrative." Open Access Now, 3 November 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=8

Sciyo. "What does Open Access imply? Who benefits from open access?" (2009). http://sciyo.com/page/openaccess

Research Studies

Edgar, Brian, and Willinsky, John. "A survey of the scholarly journals using open journal systems" (In press) (2010). http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/OJS%20Journal%20Survey.pdf

Francke, Helena. "Telling a different story in Open Access journals?" ScieCom Info 4, no. 2 (2008). http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/652/446

Harnad, Stevan, and Tim Brody. "Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 6 (2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html

Hedlund, Turid, Tomas Gustafsson, and Bo-Christer Björk. "The Open Access Scientific Journal: An Empirical Study." Learned Publishing 17, no. 3 (2004): 199-209. http://oacs.shh.fi/publications/199-210.pdf

Holmström, Jonas. "The Return on Investment of Electronic Journals—It Is a Matter of Time." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 4 (2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april04/holmstrom/04holmstrom.html

Kavanagh, Kevin. T. "Distribution of Medical Research Articles on the World Wide Web." Journal of Health & Social Policy 16, no. 3 (2003): 1-5. http://www.entusa.com/pdf_downloads/WWW-WAME.pdf

Laakso M, P. Welling, H. Bukvova, L. Nyman, B-C Björk, et al. "The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009". PLoS ONE 6:6, 2011. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020961

McCook, Alison. "Open-Access Journals Rank Well." The Scientist, 27 April 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040427/05/

Mukherjee, Bhaskar. "Evaluating E-Contents Beyond Impact Factor-A Pilot Study Selected Open Access Journals in Library And Information Science." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 10, no. 2 (Spring 2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0010.208

Pickering, Bobby. "Thomson ISI Cites an Equal Impact." Information World Review, 13 May 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1155125

Shanahan, Mike. "Open-Access Journals Are Impacting Science Community." SciDev.Net, 16 April 2004. http://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=qguideReadItem&type=1&itemid=1332&language=1

Swan, Alma. "The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date". (2010). Technical Report UNSPECIFIED, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/

Testa, James, and Marie E. McVeigh. "The Impact of Open Access Journals: A Citation Study from Thomson ISI." (2004). http://www.isinet.com/media/presentrep/acropdf/impact-oa-journals.pdf

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